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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
Because it's National Fireworks Day, moran. Why do you hate America?  |
Here in Utah we have an official State Fireworks Day, just twenty days later! Funny part is they celebrate the day the Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Funny because they came here to escape the United States and start their own kingdom, but now they fly the American flag every July 24.
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Originally Posted by Platapus
That's probably the most correct answer, for it sure ain't the day we declared our independence.  |
Sure it is. Richard Henry Lee proposed it on June 7, the Committee Of Five was formed on June 10, Jefferson gave the first draft to Adams and Franklin on June 30, Congress voted for Independence on July 2, but the document was published for all the world to see on...July 5!
I know, It says "In Congreff, July 4 1776", so that's the date that even Adams and Jefferson remembered as old men. Of course they also remembered signing it on the fourth, which they didn't actually do until August 2, but hey...